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Carbon capture analyst: 'Coal should stay in the ground'
Description: Serious flaws have been found in a decade's worth of studies about the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize the climate. The researchers have found that most economic analysis of carbon capture and storage, or CCS, technology for coal-fired power plants severely underestimates the technique's costs and overestimates its energy efficiency. CCS involves sucking carbon out of coal-fired power plants' flue gases, compressing it and then injecting it deep underground. [Source: University of Michigan]
URL: http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/23339-carbon-capture-analyst-coal-should-stay-in-the-ground
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Source: University of Michigan
Publish Date: 12/2/2015
Reading Level: Basic
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